Hail, Lake
- When
- July 21, 5:04 PM CST
- Where
- Lake County, 15 mi N of Two Harbors
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 47.250, -91.683
Hail in Minnesota, July 21, 2001
1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Duluth, MN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 21, 1:45 PM CST, 3 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 1:45 PM CST, 3 hours 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 245 PM CDT SAT JUL 21 2001 FORECAST CONCERNS ARE SHOWER AND TSTM CHCS ONCE AGAIN...BUT ALSO COLD FRONT PASSAGE SUN NIGHT/MONDAY. MODEL DIFFERENCES ONCE AGAIN WITH PLACEMENT AND TIMING THROUGHOUT THE FORECAST. WILL TRY A BLEND AGAIN TODAY. RUC80 MATCHING WELL WITH THE H5 VORT PUSHING ACROSS N MN ATTM. ONLY A FEW LIGHT SHOWERS BEING GENERATED RIGHT NOW. THE LAGGING SOUTHERN PORTION OF THIS H5 SHORTWAVE WILL HAVE A BETTER CHANCE AT TRIGGERING SOME TSTMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS MORE SUN AHEAD OF IT WILL HELP DESTABILIZE THE AIRMASS. WILL PUT IN SOME EVENING TSTMS IN SE HALF OF CWA TO COVER THIS WAVE...BUT WILL UPDATE WORDING NEAR ZONE ISSUANCE TIME. NEXT MCS PROJECTED TO TAKE AIM AT OUR W ZONES LATE TONIGHT AND SUNDAY...BUT MODELS DIVERGE GREATLY HERE. AVN HITS ONLY THE N ZONES ON SUNDAY...WHILE ETA/MESO/NGM FOCUS MAINLY S. DAILY TRENDS HAVE BEEN WEAKENING STORMS AS THEY REACH US BY MORNING...BUT INSTABILITY PARAMS INDICATING MODERATELY UNSTABLE CONDITIONS STILL BY 12Z SUN. HOWEVER...WILL NOT GO TOO STRONG ON TSTM WORDING LATE TONIGHT AND SUNDAY WITH THE SIGNIFICANT MODEL DIFFERENCES. MODELS TO AGREE IN LATER PERIODS ON DRAGGING A PRE-FRONTAL TROF THROUGH OUR CWA ON SUNDAY NIGHT. AVN IS MORE AGGRESSIVE HERE WITH FOCUS AND STRENGTH OF THE TROF. MODELS WERE INITIALLY SHOWING THIS AS THE COLD FRONT PASSAGE...BUT NOW HOLD THE COLD FRONT BACK NORTH OF THE CANADIAN BORDER UNTIL MONDAY NIGHT. WILL GO WITH 40 POPS MOST ZONES WITH TROF PASSAGE SUN NIGHT. MODELS DO ALSO AGREE ON A SHORTWAVE HITTING OUR WI ZONES MONDAY MORNING FROM THE SW. WILL GO WITH POPS THERE BUT KEEP OTHER AREAS DRY. A FEW BORDER HOPPING SHOWERS OR STORMS MAY GENERATE IN THE VICINITY OF THE COLD FRONT... SO MAY THROUGH IN 20 POPS IN OUR FAR NW ZONES MONDAY/MONDAY NIGHT. MODELS ARE BASICALLY GOING FOR A DRY FRONTAL PASSAGE ONCE IT DOES MOVE THROUGH ON TUESDAY MORNING. JUST A FEW SHOWERS HINTED ALONG THE CANADIAN BORDER. WILL LEAVE TUES DRY FOR NOW IN THE EXTENDED. PERSISTENCE TEMPS HAVE WORKED OUT WELL AND WILL FOLLOW THAT TREND AGAIN. ONCE AGAIN...GOING A BIT CLOSER TO WARMER FWC. .DLH...NONE. SHIMON
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Illinois, July 21 to 24, 2001
- Heat in Missouri, July 21 to 24, 2001
- Heat in Wisconsin, July 21 to 22, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Michigan, July 21, 2001
- Flash Flood and Flood in Illinois, July 21, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Montana, July 21 to 22, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, July 21, 2001
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 21, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 21, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 21, 2001
- Flood in Alaska, July 21 to 23, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 21, 2001
More
Every storm in Minnesota in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, July 2001
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5261935.